POR LA POPULATION DE PARIS
Jorge Diezma
2006

In this intervention, by spanish painter Jorge Diezma (Madrid, 1973) and called Por la Population de Paris –For Paris’ People-, the artist placed one of his recent series of paintings on the walls of the Passage Souterrain. This serie –named « the ugly paintings »- was conceived in paralell to his latest suite of hyperrealistic animals.
This animals portraited on a black background, activated a « push contemporary painting  to the limit », making questions like : are they cool? Are they old fashioned? what the hell is modernity ?
The power of the images was clear, perfect. But the small serie he did along with this one, for more than two years, the Ugly Paintings, was as present in his day by day working as the necessity of making perfect animals. In this ugly case he exposed abstract, small, brilliantly dark, strange forms and colours in the limit of the inner cosmos. Fear wonders, forms and textures shaping the real human nature.
We used to have a lot of fun watching this serie, really loved that strange little things. So when I jokingly invited him to show part of this serie at the Passage Souterrain, he inmediatly accepted, knowing that those paintings could only be exposed no where but in that lost in the espace refugee. As an act of extreme generosity –for Paris’ people-, and with the help of friends, we glued that 12 oil on canvas paintings to the walls, giving them away. Next day, they were all removed. Still don’t know by whom. Hope that person enjoys them as much as we did.